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|title=Cursed Moon: Prospero's War: Book Two

|author=Jaye Wells

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It's now six weeks since Kate Prospero saved her brother Danny's life by cooking the illegal dirty magic antidote to her Uncle Abe's poisonous recipe. Abe is safely in prison but Kate, as an MEA cop trained to track and punish practitioners of dirty magic, now has a secret. There are also other matters clawing at her mind. A series of thefts and murders is disrupting Babylon, causing it to become more dangerous by the day - and that's saying something! Indeed as the Halloween new moon approaches the murder and mayhem will increase. Meanwhile Kate is discovering even older secrets than hers which cause her to question everything she's been brought up to believe.

Although Kate is Danny's sister, their age difference leads to a virtual mother/son relationship. Kate therefore carries all the guilt that a non-9-till-5-job imposes on a parent, along with the guilt she feels for embracing illegality, albeit in a good cause. In that case we also add a layer of guilt for her not revealing it to her dirty magic recovery group and this is without even accounting for her feelings on being blackmailed by her former lover/society pillar John Volos. (Yes, read the first book first!) All we can do is watch vicariously as Jaye peels the psychological layers back to demonstrate a woman on the edge.

(Thank you so much to the good people at Orbit for providing us with a copy for review.)

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